Best color printers for small business 2017

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Our Excel and PowerPoint charts and slides printed with only a few barely perceptible flaws, such as minor banding in dark gradients. Our common serif and sans-serif fonts were legible down to 6 points and below (depending on the typeface), and our decorative fonts came out better than average, too. Since both the HL-L8360CDW and HL-L6260CDW use essentially the same print engine (the former has some minor tweaks to make it support a few different features and higher-yield toner cartridges (see the Running Costs section coming up next), print quality is essentially the same between them: above average text and graphics and slightly below average photos. When printing our sample 4-by-6-inch snapshots, though, the HL-L8630CDW's average of 12 seconds beat the smaller Brother model by two seconds and the C332dn by eight seconds. When I combined the times from printing our more complex PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint documents containing color, graphics, and photos with the print times from the previous 12-page Word document, the HL-L8360CDW's score plummeted by about two-thirds (around 65 percent), to 11.4ppm, almost 2ppm behind its smaller sibling and the OKI C332dn.

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And, finally, Brother provides free tech support for the life of the printer, rather than for only the warrantee period, as some other printer makers do.

Both machines include both HP's PCL6 and BR-Script 3 (Brother's version of Adobe PostScript) for greater compatibility with desktop publishing and graphic design environments.

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The HL-L6360CDW, however, also supports Active Directory for requiring an ID and password to enable printing, and an NFC card reader for securing print jobs and printer functions from access without a compatible NFC card or badge. Security features on the two Brother printers are mostly the same, including Secure Function Lock for restricting specific features, such as printing in color (to help keep consumable costs down) for up to 200 users, and Secure Print for making sensitive documents accessible only through inputting the correct PIN. While the control panel on the HL-L8260CDW consists of a two-line monochrome readout-like display and accompanying buttons, the HL-L8360CDW comes with a 2.7-inch color touch screen display that, among other things, allows easy connectivity to most popular cloud sites. Both machines allow you to print from USB thumb drives, though, via a port located on the left-front side of the chassis, just below the control panel. In addition, it supports Brother's Office Print cloud app for printing from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint 365, and OneDrive, which the HL-L8260CDW does not.

Both machines support peer-to-peer Wi-Fi Direct, and a slew of cloud and other mobility features, but the HL-L8360CDW also supports NFC, which allows you to print by touching your smartphone or tablet to a hotspot on the printer.

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Physical connectivity options are the same on both the HL-L8630CDW and the HL-L8260CDW : Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and connecting to a single PC via USB. Also like the HL-L8260CDW, the L8360CDW comes out of the box with a paper capacity of 300 sheets, split between a 250-sheet paper cassette and a 50-sheet multipurpose tray. The OKI C332dn, another similarly priced standalone color laser-class (it uses an LED array, rather than an actual laser, as its light source) printer, is significantly shorter, but weighs about the same.

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Off-white with a black top, the HL-L8360CDW measures 12.3 by 17.4 by 19.1 inches (HWD) and weighs 48.1 pounds, which is about an inch shorter and a few ounces lighter than the HL-L8260CDW, and a little bigger and heavier than the Editors' Choice HP Color LaserJet Pro M452dw. All of this for just $70 more makes the HL-L8360CDW a better value, and therefore our latest top choice for a moderate-to-heavy volume color laser printer for a micro or small office or workgroup. Like the HL-L8260CDW, it prints well and at a fast clip.

The HL-L8360CDW gives you greater expandability, twice the memory, a higher duty cycle, access to higher-yield toner cartridges, lower running costs, greater security, and a few additional functions, such as near-field communication (NFC) and a color touch screen. The Brother HL-L8360CDW ($399.99), a color laser printer, is essentially the recent Editors' Choice Brother HL-L8260CDW on steroids.

Best color printers for small business 2017